An Interview With WETA Vice Chair and Bay Area Council President Jim Wunderman BY DAN ROSENHEIM Published: July, 2019 What Bay Area Council (BAC) President Jim Wunderman thinks about ferries matters a lot. The BAC was there at the start 20 years ago, convening the so-called Blue Ribbon Committee that led to the […]
Published: July, 2019 The WETA Downtown San Francisco Ferry Terminal Expansion is on schedule for completion in January 2020. Gates F and G, along with the new over-water promenade and pedestrian bridge, are now both fully operational and have been since February 2019. Happening now and over the next few months is over-water construction […]
Published: July, 2019 Catch Your Ferry to Fly: Starting July 29, SFO will be launching a free airport shuttle to connect the San Francisco Bay Ferry South San Francisco Ferry Terminal to the airport, meeting passengers on all arriving ferries from Oakland/Alameda in the morning and transporting them on a 15-minute ride to the […]
BY DAN ROSENHEIM Published: July, 2019 It’s a self-described “imperfect solution,” but ferry operators and the Port of San Francisco have taken steps to ensure there will be ferry service when the new Chase Center Arena opens in Mission Bay this fall. By unanimous vote at their June board meeting, Water Emergency Transit […]
BY PAUL DUCLOS Published: June, 2019 If most ferry riders are able to attend only one performance of San Francisco Opera’s summer season, our pick is Rusalka, which is about a water nymph inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen story The Little Mermaid. And while readers might already know the opera’s signature aria, “Song […]
Published: June, 2019 Free Hot Dogs for Kids Vallejo’s Savage & Cooke Distillery will be sponsoring a summer promotion at all Saturday home games for the Vallejo Admirals minor-league baseball team. All kids 10 and under will receive a free hot dog meal including chips, a drink and a Rice Krispies Treat when accompanied […]
Published: June, 2019 As summer kicks off in the Bay Area, the Jack London Square waterfront is the ideal location to enjoy the sunshine with a variety of waterfront activities, dining options and events. California Canoe & Kayak is a one-stop shop for waterfront fun, providing rentals of kayaks, canoes, paddle boards, and […]
BY BILL PICTURE Published: June, 2019 At the end of April, the Port of Oakland adopted a strategy for minimizing the impact of port-related truck traffic on the surrounding neighborhood. Port officials are now meeting to flesh out a detailed work plan. The West Oakland Truck Management Plan tackles everything from keeping truck […]
BY JOEL WILLIAMS Published: June, 2019 There’s an old boating joke: “The best two days a boat owner has are the day he buys a boat and the day he sells it.” The obvious idea behind the joke—that owning a boat is both expensive and a hassle—has a lot of basis in fact. […]
BY SEJAL CHOKSI-CHUGH Published: June, 2019 As the dust settles from the whirlwind transition of the California governor’s office, it’s a relief that the state has squashed the Delta tunnels water project. The proposal for massive twin tunnels through the Delta was an expensive infrastructure project—deceptively named “WaterFix”—that would have caused irreparable harm to […]